Dog adoption and cat adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog or adopt a cat and you'll have a friend for life!
Contact us, or contact another local humane society, animal shelter or SPCA.

Pets at Our Shelter:

Cities, Towns, and/or Counties We Serve:

We are a small rural animal shelter located in the Catskill Mountain Region. We serve 20 townships and care for over 250 cats and dogs on a daily basis while they wait for their forever homes. We are an open admission shelter that does not turn animals away from our service region. Our placement rate for dogs is over 90% and our placement rate for cats is over 80%. We also operate the PetSmart Cat Adoption Center in Kingston, New York.

About Our
Shelter:

To act as a protective association primarily in the care and disposition of lost, stray, or unwanted homeless dogs and cats. To promote and advance humane and protective care and treatment of animals by positive community interaction through education, spay/neuter programs and other activities that enable people of all ages and in all circumstances to enjoy animal companionship.

Donate to Our Shelter...

http://www.heartofthecatskills.org

Come Meet our Pets:

Our shelter adoption hours are Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 4pm and by appointment. In the summer months we are open on Sundays from 1pm to 3pm. We are located 3 miles north of Delhi on Route 10.

Our Adoption Process:

We have a 2 page adoption application and requre veterinary references, personal references and a landlord reference and permission. Our adoption application can be downloaded from our website. We have a minimum 24 hour waiting period for any adoption and require that any pets adopted be spayed and neutered. We do adoption follow-ups for all our pets adopted. We do our very best to match the right home with the right pet and will counsel our adopters on the best choice of pet.

Why should you adopt?

Dog adoption and cat
adoption saves lives. Adopt
a dog or adopt a cat and you'll
have a friend for life! What is the difference between adopting a dog, adopting
a cat, adopting a kitten or adopting a puppy versus getting dogs for sale, cats
for sale, puppies for sale or kittens for sale from a dog breeder or a cat breeder?
When someone is breeding puppies or breeding kittens, they are creating new dogs
and cats who need homes. Some people are interested in a very specific breed of
dog, cat, puppy or kitten and they think the only way to find that specific breed
is to buy a dog for sale or buy a cat for sale from a puppy breeder or a kitten
breeder. Yet animal shelters are filled with dogs and cats who must find homes.
So rather than buying a dog or puppy for sale from a dog breeder or buying a cat
or kitten for sale from a cat breeder, we encourage people to adopt a dog, adopt
a cat, adopt a puppy or adopt a kitten at their local animal shelter, SPCA, humane
society or pet rescue group.